China Travel 2.0

The Heart of Dim Sum By AMY MA HONG KONG–”Even after 35 years of practice, I still get burned every day,” chuckles Pui Mak-wai. The chef stretches out both palms to reveal bright-red steam burns he suffered earlier that morning. He moves his hands with a surgeon-like dexterity, but he uses them for a different [...]

Ecology lifeline of Hainan: Governor By： Zhao Huanxin and Wang Hao (china Daily) Updated: 2010-03-22 08:04 HAIKOU – No place in China has hogged more of the limelight than Hainan since the dawn of the year, when the central government unveiled a national strategy of developing the southernmost province into a world-class tourism destination in [...]

Beijing, March 22 — When it comes to tourism, Hainan is flying high with colors…in more ways than one. Hoping to join the ranks of Hawaii, Australia and the Caribbean, Hainan is promoting all kinds of tourism on the island. Boasting sandy beaches and a bright blue ocean, the island has long been into what’s [...]

SANYA, Hainan, March 21 (Xinhua) A senior official with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said Sunday china is expected to become the world’s largest tourist destination by 2015. “China, as we predict, is going to become the world’s No. 1 tourist destination by the year 2015,” said Taleb Rifai, secretary general of the [...]

最后一分钟的海外旅行 Eliza Hussman, Chronicle Staff Writer Say your Aunt Millicent in London dies on Monday and you have to be there for the funeral by Thursday. Or your boss tells you he’s sending you on urgent business to Outer Mongolia and you’ve never owned a passport in your life. What do you do when your [...]

NOTE:  This article is from: SFGate.com   San Francisco Chronicle: Sunday, March 14, 2010 Walking beneath Gordian-knot tangles of drooping overhead wires, past apartment windows draped with laundry, I enter a 1920s building and wedge myself into a tiny elevator. Seconds later, I emerge into the hidden elegance of M on the Bund restaurant and [...]